Olena Bilous

Career

• 2026 Postdoc position funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds), MARITE project ‘Global warming effects on macrophytes’ role in lowland rivers’ (https://forschung.boku.ac.at/en/projects/16863) in University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (IHG), Vienna, Austria (BOKU Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management)
• 2025 - 2025 Short Term Excursion – Teacher, CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies) Mobility Grant, at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Biology within the framework of CEEPUS Mobility no.: M-AT-1101-2425-198321 (0,2 month/s, 07.07.2025-11.07.2025) (CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies))
• 2022 - 2025 Postdoc position funded by Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory and Austrian Science Fund (FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds) in University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (IHG), Vienna, Austria (BOKU Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management)
• 2019 - 2025 Senior Researcher (Institute of Hydrobiology of NAS of Ukraine)
• 2024 - 2024 Visiting Scientist at ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences PD Prof. Marco Cantonati, Tenure-track Prof. ‘Joint identification and validation of identifications using digitized images of diatoms from the Danube floodplain near Vienna’ (Universitá di Bologna)
• 2022 - 2022 JESH (Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities) program Ukraine Emergency Call 2022 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Fund. Number 80539) ‘The potential of aquatic plants to control eutrophication in river reservoirs’ (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• 2020 - 2020 JESH (Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities) program, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, for cooperation between outstanding young researchers from abroad in Austria (Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management of University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria), ‘Improved Assessment of Reference conditions for river phytoplankton according to WFD Principles in Ukraine (RECRIP)’ (Fund. Number 80319) (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• 2019 - 2019 Expert in the Ukrainian OSCE project (Assistance in developing an environmental monitoring system in the Donbass) (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
• 2018 - 2018 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst / German AcademicExchange Service) Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists (in Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany), “Environmental DNA (eDNA) Metabarcoding as a new approach for water quality assessment of the Southern Bug River, Ukraine (EMAB)’ (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
• 2018 - 2018 Expert in the Moldovan-Ukrainian OSCE project (Enabling transboundary cooperation and integrated water resources management in the Dniester River Basin) (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
• 2018 - 2018 Visiting Scientist (Institute of Nature Conservation PAS (Kraków, Poland))
• 2016 - 2019 Research Scientist (Institute of Hydrobiology of NAS of Ukraine)
• 2015 - 2015 Visiting Scientist (Bratislava, Slovakia) (Water Research Institute)
• 2015 - 2015 Visiting Scientist at Institute of Evolution of University (Israel) (University of Haifa)
• 2013 - 2015 Junior Researcher (Institute of Hydrobiology of NAS of Ukraine)
• 2009 - 2012 PhD Program, Department of Ecological Physiology of Aquatic Plants (Institute of Hydrobiology of NAS of Ukraine)